Romania,Ploiesti

Colegiul National “Nichita Stanescu” is a secondary school in Ploiesti, Romania. Ploiesti is a large city situated 60km far from Bucharest and 100km far from Dracula`s Castle in the beautiful Carpathians.
There are 1,000 students in our school (11-18 years old); they are particularly interested in English ,but they also study French, mathematics, computer science, physics, chemistry, biology, history, geography. We organize a lot of extracurricular activities. Our students are interested in ecology, drama, music, sports, volunteering.
Both teachers and students can use computers and the Internet in our school. We have 3 computer science labs, 3 language labs and 13 interactive whiteboards.
During the last years our teachers and students' interest in our community life - on one hand by solving specific problems, on the other hand by consolidating civic, environmental education, for a healthy lifestyle of young people - was represented by a great number of projects, such as:

• "SOS Animals" - a national project whose aim was solving the problem of stray dogs in our city: practical activities (collecting funds to look after our community dogs, finding families for their adoption) and making young people aware that animals need their love and care;
• "A Green Dream for Our Life" - a national project; teachers and students created a small school park inside our school yard where students spend their time during the breaks;
• National Contests: "The Map of Romanian Green Schools" http://www.cceg.ro/harta_verde.htm , "Green Schools for a Green Future" http://scolipentruunviitorverde.ro , "Think Green, Think Clean" http://www.apmph.ro/ ;

International Projects:

• Energ@tic (reducing energy consumption without affecting people's comfort) www.inforef.be ;
• Clim@tic (climate changes and their impact on mankind) www.inforef.be ;

Our deputy school principal Silvia Olteanu, who is a biology teacher founded Ecoterra Teachers' Association www.ecoterra-ph.ro , whose vision is "A clean, unpolluted environment where the new generation will grow healthy, with a universal consciousness and responsibility for life and its continuity on Terra".